By Reuters PRAGUE – A Slovak court handed a 15-year prison sentence to a man charged with facilitating the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018 in a plea deal on Monday, a spokeswoman said. The killing of Kuciak and his fiancee, both 27, at their home outside Bratislava in February 2018 sparked mass protests […]readmore
By VOA News People across the world are gathering for traditional celebrations to welcome the year 2020. Revelers in New Zealand and other Pacific islands were among the first to celebrate the new year with fireworks displays. Events elsewhere in the world are being overshadowed by other concerns, including in Australia where the fireworks show […]readmore
By VOA News Hundreds of Iraqi protesters stormed the perimeter of the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, setting fire to one of its gates with some reportedly entering the building. Most of those involved in the attack appear to belong to pro-Iranian Shi’ite parties, which are upset about a U.S. airstrike on […]readmore
by AP SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – European space officials on Tuesday postponed the launch of a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems shortly before it was due to blast off. The European Space Agency announced that the launch from Kourou, French Guiana, of the Characterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) mission would be […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Anjana Pasricha Jeff Seldin, national security correspondent, contributed to this report. NEW DELHI – The Islamic State group said Tuesday, without providing evidence, that it was responsible for a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds of others on Easter Sunday. The claim came […]readmore
VOA NEWS- Associated Press TOKYO — Japan’s space agency said its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully dropped an explosive designed to make a crater on an asteroid and collect its underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system. Friday’s crater mission is the riskiest for Hayabusa2, as it had to immediately get away […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Lina Correa Rosa Tania Valdés El diplomático venezolano Gustavo Tarre, designado para representar al gobierno interino de Juan Guaidó en la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), estaría cerca de ocupar su silla en el organismo en la medida en que se concreta la salida ordenada por el presidente en disputa Nicolás Maduro. […]readmore
VOA NEWS- Anita Powell RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Twenty-six-year-old Precious, as she has asked us to call her to protect her identity, is 16 weeks pregnant. And so is her best friend, also by Precious’ boyfriend. That event turned her life upside down and brought her to the difficult decision to seek an abortion. She lives […]readmore
VOA NEWS- Agence France-Presse BRUSSELS — The European Parliament faced calls Thursday to strip ExxonMobil lobbyists of their access badges after the US oil giant missed the assembly’s first hearing into claims it knowingly misled the public on climate change. Greens deputy Molly Scott Cato told the hearing in Brussels she would formally make the request […]readmore
VOA NEWS/Khanh An WASHINGTON — At Hanoi’s Tuan Duong Hair Salon, it’s all about the haircut homage. As Vietnam’s capital city prepares to host the second summit between North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, and U.S. President Donald Trump, salon owner Tuan Duong is offering free haircuts to customers eager to sport the distinctive hairstyle of […]readmore